WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

May 30, 2026

Caturday

one black & white kitten (Bonbon) and one tuxedo kitten (Basho) — Basho & Bonbon July 2025 – they are bigger now

When I began Blogging, it was Friday Cat Blogging. I was once called by a reporter for the New York Times who did a story on this popular blog meme. Now it's Caturday. Anyone know how/who started this one?

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Caturday

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